Throughout this debate, Gunlock kept ranting on about personal responsibility and ignoring Hartmann's counter arguments about poor people lacking access to the healthier alternatives to Fritos and Cheetos as well as health information. Also evaded TH's points about school vending machines.

Originally formed in 1991 as "Women for Clarence Thomas" in an effort to secure the nominee a seat on the Supreme Court. Just what the Independent Women's Forum is independent from is unclear -- it certainly cannot claim independence from the White House with Vice-Presidential wife Lynne Cheney as Director Emeritus and ultra-conservative pundit and Bush advisor Larry Kudlow as a board member. IWF has even been awarded a grant as part of the US Department of State's $10 million Iraqi Women's Democracy Initiative to help a group of Iraqi women leaders define their role in Iraq's government.

Funding Sources: IWF is funded almost exclusively by large grants from conservative foundations with a few specific programs funded by major government grants. The private conservative foundation grants are from, for example, the Olin, Scaife and Randolph foundations, and generally are not tied to any specific programs; they are just large sums of money to be spent at IWF's discretion.

1. K&R. Well said.

And I think of the serious discussions of the national obesity problem on TV that I've seen, interrupted by commercials for delicious food we gotta go get right now.

Would companies spend the billions on such advertising if they didn't work?

Yet we keep telling people it's all about personal responsibility. Tons of messages to eat eat eat that we're just supposed to be strong enough to resist, even though they are designed to overcome our resistance.